Illegal Drug Overdose Deaths Rise - How Addictions is Killing Us
Fentanyl killing more in Sacramento than homicide in 2021, county officials, DA say
Sacramento County officials continue to warn about a drastic increase in fentanyl deaths, overwhelmingly linked to counterfeit prescription pills that are either laced with the dangerous opioid or are just straight-up fentanyl. The county as of early November estimated 87 deaths this year from fentanyl, just one shy of the total for all of 2020, according to a news release from the Department of Health Services and the District Attorney’s Office. That’s up from 36 fentanyl deaths reported countywide in 2019, already a big increase from 14 in 2018.
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America’s Drug Policy Sucks.
What is America’s Drug Policy? Do we even have one?
All good questions.
The latest from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is that “more than 96,000 drug overdose deaths” were reported from March 2020 to March 2021.
Addiction Medicine Specialist Dr. Trent Hall of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center calls it a “collision of health crises.”
It appears that there is a link between the COVID Pandemic and U.S. drug overdose deaths.
It’s an easy, simple reason. We like simple; we like easy. “Take a pill and call me in the morning” is a good remedy.
But if we talk about drugs, we have to talk about Depression and America’s Mental Health Care Crisis.
One-On-One with Ben Cort
I went searching for answers. And I found a brilliant man who has insight and first-hand experience with illegal drug use. And since “coming clean” and working to stay drug-free, Ben Cort has written a book “Weed, Inc. The Truth About THC, The Pot Lobby, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry.”
Cort has also dedicated his life to working for Drug Policy Reform on the State and Federal levels.
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